Following the Equator

"Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid."

"A man may have no bad habits and have worse."

"The truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it."

"Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven."

"It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right."

"We can secure other peoples approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that."

"Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied."

"It is easier to stay out than [to] get out."

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities, truth isnt."

"Classic." A book which people praise and dont read."

"There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white mans notion that he is less savage than the other savages."

"Be good and you will be lonesome."